2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of methane cage based on pai-space design
Project/Area Number |
16K14068
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Organic and hybrid materials
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Research Institution | National Institute for Materials Science |
Principal Investigator |
ISHIHARA Shinsuke 国立研究開発法人物質・材料研究機構, 国際ナノアーキテクトニクス研究拠点, 主任研究員 (30644067)
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Research Collaborator |
SUMITA Masato
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Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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Keywords | メタン / 包接 / 吸着 / 分子カプセル / 超分子 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Methane has attracted interests as a next generation chemical energy. However,high pressure gas cylinder must be used to deliver methane, so that broad adoption of methane into society is facing a problem on safety. In this project, we aimed to develop methane cage by maximizing intermolecular interactions between methane and host molecules,leading to create novel materials that can store methane at low pressure. Candidates of host molecules are selected based on theoretical calculations, and several of them were actually synthesized. Binding and/or adsorption of methane into these host molecules were evaluated in water or inside clay layer. So far, we have not confirmed binding and/or adsorption of methane by our host molecules, but further improvement of host molecules as well as measurement conditions will solve the issue.
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Free Research Field |
超分子化学
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